Improvement in ditchers and graders



`and Ido hereby declare that thetollowing is a forth and described.

' AUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

E. L. FOREMAN, OF RAN'IOUL, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR -TO EDWARD FOREMAN, 0F SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT |N vDirei-laas AND cRAuiRs.V

` Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 97,183, dated November 23, 1869; antedated November 15, 1869.

1'0 all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, E L. FonEMAN, of Rantoul, in the county ot` Ohan'ipaign, and in the State of Illinois, have invented certainnew and useful lm proveinents in Ditchersand Scrapers;

full, clear, and exact description thereof, refereuce being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of' reference marked thereon.

The object of my invention is to provide a movable ditcher'and road-scraper which can be easilyaud readily used; and it consists in thearraugement of certain devices, hereinafter set Figure lis a perspective ot' my invention.

` Letter A represents a ditching-plow, ivhich is provided with a movable side, B. `Upon the moldboard side of this ditcher I place a steel plating, extending from the top to from two to four inch-es below-the bottom, and` formedy as sharp and kuife-like-as possible, so as to offer less resistance to the earth.

ward'more than a t'ew inches. By plating the whole of the molding` I iud that it scours much Upon the g 'opposite side this plating does not extend upeasier, and is a great saving to the Wood-Work, and by having it extend down below the edge it cuts much more easily, and so requires less power to draw it.

As the other parts ofthe ditcher are the same as those in-the Patent No. 86,294, granted -to In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this^27tb day of March, 1869.

E. L. FOREMAN.'`

Witnesses:

J. W. DODGE, H. S. ToBIE. 

